BelfastBiker's Fitness Blog.

12.4 miles walked, 249/2500 to target. #TwitterFitclub #barefootC25K #GoTheDist

Good distance today, and over 25K steps.  Left calf a wee bit ballixed with the barefoot running!

6 miles walked, 237/2500 miles to target. #FitBit #GoTheDist

Haven’t left house much today, and managed to walk 6 miles while bro and myself cleaned and tidied my house top to bottom -climbed stairs exactly 50 times!

9.5 miles walked, 231/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist #C25K #BarefootRunning

Got my FitBit today, another gadget to keep me right - bit of an easier way to track mileage and number of steps.  Had no fun calibrating it at all, had to walk the same 0.7 mile loop 5 times!  all sorted now….   

Also started C25K, barefoot this time - I hear good things about barefoot running… we’ll see how that goes.  Damn treadmill gets hot underfoot….

3.5 lbs DOWN this week. 70lbs DOWN total. #GoTheDist

That’s FIVE stone gone, only about six or seven to go - Walking lots and 90% paleo diet is working very well for me, and haven’t needed to count calories!

10.2miles walking, 192/2500 to target. #GoTheDist

Clawing back a wee bit of deficit.. :)

5 miles walking, 182/2500 to target. #GoTheDist

Bit light, other things doing today, had to get two buses home, sadly.

9 miles done, 177/2500 miles to target. #GoThedist

Busy day, no lunchtime walk, but decent mileage nonetheless.  Allowed myself a chocolate bar, apart from that solid as hell Paleo diet.  roll on payday to allow me to prep food better!

2.7 lbs DOWN this week, 11lbs DOWN this month, total loss 66 lbs. #GoTheDist

Also this month I’ve taken 2” off my chest, 2” off my ass and 2.5” off my waist.  AND my resting heart rate is down TWENTY to 62bpm.

Now, I’m basically at my weight/heart rate/measurement stats that I was at last May 2011. So I’ve just rewound 7 months of neglect in less than a month.  Over 150miles of walking has clearly helped, but I put this down to Paleo eating almost completely, it’s fantastic!!!

One wee thing, I was lighter the previous day - it’s shocking how a salty snack and meal yesterday can hurt a couple of days of dieting!  To think I used to do that at worse each and every day, any wonder I got up to 23 and a half stone. :)

Great Cholesterol results for a fatty!

• TOTAL Cholesterol - 151 mg/dl (<200 is good, >240 is high risk.)
• HDL - 39 mg/dl (getting that up to 40 would be best, or higher, work to do!)
• LDL - 101 mg/dl (right on the edge of fantastic - reduced chance of atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke.  >160 is high.)
• Cholesterol Ratio - 3.9 (well into low risk, less chance of heart disease.  >9.5 is moderate risk, >23 is high risk.)
• Fasting Blood Glucose - 4.6 mmol/L (great result! >7.0 would likely be diabetes.)
• Triglycerides - 55 mg/dl (Lower risk of heart disease.  <130 is what you want, >200 is high.)

So overall, I’m elated at these results.  Apart from HDL which is holding steady, all the other results are lower than the last result mid last year.  The trigs in particular are down from 169 to 55!

I put it 90% down to the Paleo type of eating I’ve switched to - healthy fats, great quality proteins, little carbs, minimal processed food and dairy, lots of veggies.  Obviously my lot of walking is helping too I guess.   Can’t weight to get off the treadmill tonight, sleep, and wake up for weigh-in.  Yeah I know,  rock and roll… :)

5 miles done, 149/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

Tired.

4.5 miles done, 144 / 2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

“Normal.”  Had to ask the nurse to repeat it over the phone.

“Normal.”  Not a winner for talker of the world, or greatest rapport, but I could have kissed her down the phone line.

Waiting for chest x-ray results when you’ve unexplained occasional pains in the left part of chest under rib cage, where you heart is, and recent memory or exactly how your mum’s cancer-ridden death started (with an x-ray), is scary as fuck.

I don’t recommend it, if you can avoid it.

I’ll still need to go to doc to get the constant mild pain in the left jugular sorted, but generally, I trust that shedding the weight will fix the majority of my ills.  so i’ll continue to do so.

8.7 miles done, 140/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

Plodding along.  Not loving the dozen or so sharp but minor synchronous pains in left of chest plus upper left back that happened over a few mins on walk to work.  Not terrible, just weird.  Perhaps I’m just a worrywart.  Is that even a word?  

Chest x-ray results tomorrow.  Hope they just say “all clear big lad, come in for further checks to see if we can find what the occasional niggle in chest is, and let’s check out that persistent left jugular pain while we’re at it. Oh and keep on losing weight, it might fix itself as you stop being a fat bastard.”  If they just say “yeah, you need to come and see a… consultant”, well, fuck that.

On the plus side, some of my trousers are getting a bit big, which is a good thing I suppose… but why can’t it happen on PAYDAY??

6 miles done, 131/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

Cut short today, things to do.  Only walked part way to work, walked to/from docs, walked home.  Ho hum.  Still at it though.

8 miles done, 125/2500 miles down. #GoTheDist

Just a walk to work and back and a bit - bit late posting this, so walk was actually yesterday!

4.5miles done, 117/2500miles down. #GoThedist

Not feeling it today, walk to work and lunch, but couldn’t be arsed walking any more, early night.